Wow, you leave your blog out there in the big ol’ www for a few months to fend for itsslf and when you check back in on it, it’s full of spam! 1158 spam comments to be precise. So much for the WP Captcha Free plugin, that claims to “Block comment spam without captcha”. Don’t Continue reading Spam!

At 10:10 and 10 seconds on Sunday 10/10/10, the latest version of Cananical’s Ubuntu Linux operating system (Ubuntu 10.10, codenamed Maverick Meerkat) was released, along with it’s derivatives, Edubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu. Now I’m a big Xubuntu fan and run it on both my netbook and desktop, so I quickly grabbed the netbook and set Continue reading The Meerkat Is Here… A Review of Xubuntu 10.10

In recent months, several reports have been release detailing how little Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) contribute to upstream projects, such as Gnome and the Linux kernel. Last week, Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder and the “benevolent dictator” of Ubuntu, release a blog post defending Canonical’s position. You can read the full post here, but I Continue reading Ubuntu – Driving Linux Forward or Stealing the Credit?

If you’ve read my About page, you’ll know that I’m a big fan of Debian- / Ubuntu-derived distros and also of rolling release distros. So the latest offering from Linux Mint is right up my street – a Debian Testing-based, rolling release distro, called Linux Mint Debian Edition.

I was catching up with season 3 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast this week (I’m a bit behind) and in one of the earlier episodes, one of the guys (Dave I think) mentioned that you could turn Debian into a rolling release by using the Testing branch and referencing it as Testing rather than it’s Continue reading Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3…